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men lose their masculinity (the social reward for correctly performed manhood) through advocating for, sympathizing with, or doing labor that is allocated to women.
(and I'm not talking about some innate, spiritual, or psychological masculinity. I mean social masculinity--being regarded by higher ranking men as masculine.)
you genuinely do lose your current standing if you meaningfully and consistently object to the economic, legal, and interpersonal status of women, especially in ways that implicate men around you.
many men believe that if they are willing to do this, occasionally, then they are owed a recuperation of their masculinity through some other means.
if they are sacrificing masculinity through advocating for women politically, then they expect to bolster their masculinity through receiving expressions of gratitude and adoration by women ("feminist men are so hot" "consent is sexy" "pro-choice men get laid more" etc.) or they expect to bolster their masculinity through emasculating other men by asserting the standards of masculinity they adhere to are the "real" masculinity ("real men support women" "sexists are immature boys, I'm a man" "I'm secure in my masculinity and they're insecure" etc.)
to dismantle patriarchy, you need to be able to advocate for women even when it means losing gendered status. other men mostly will not respect you, and many misogynist women will not respect you either. it might not get you laid or praised or validated. in fact, it will probably subject you to increased scrutiny and criticism (because feminized subjects are always subject to such, and if you lose social masculinity, you too will experience this to some degree).
will you still advocate for women even if there is no social benefit and only social cost? do you have principles, or do you just want the fantasy of being a benevolent ruler?
Literally this
This feels especially relevant in light of a girl and her family being killed at the hands of a Tate fanatic… it feels like the biggest gen z learning curve (especially gen z men) is driving home the fact that misogyny does actually exist and is not a myth or an excuse or a cheesy thing women harp on
Feels so necessary to add that so many gen z men are bitter w women for having it “easy”…. And it’s like??? In what way??? And their example is always that they have to approach in relationships or have to be “providers” or women get more compliments. Even if we assume all that is true (and like… it’s def not on most of these counts, bc it’s not as if men ubiquitously provide for women in the modern world), it shows such a gross lack of understanding for the inequalities women face in practically Everything else… like get serious…
Council communist?
Some might say so. I’m definitely influenced by them. But I’m more sympathetic to Lenin and the Bolsheviks than most of them would be willing to accept. From that I’m also more “partyist,” though I follow Marx’s distinction between the historical party (the general communist political faction) and the formal party (the temporary, limited organizations with their membership lists etc). And also with Marx, I disagree with the merger formula that communism as a concept has to be brought to workers from outside as a ready-made blueprint of the intellectuals. Instead Marx said that they have to “take note of what is happening before their eyes and to become its mouthpiece.” Lenin said this too in a contradiction to his Kautskyist influences
However the truism that council communism has no party concept is just historically inaccurate. Herman Gorter advocated a formal communist party outright, and those who opposed the formal party like Otto Rühle didn’t oppose any party functions at all but identified them with the class organizations. The debate among the councilists was not about the party but about the relationship between party and class, and between the political and economic in revolutionary struggle.
Ultimately my disagreement with much of council communist thought is more that I think the party-class-state trinity that the Bolsheviks talked about is still a useful framing. The autonomy of the party from the rest of the class is necessary insofar as the autonomy of thought and theory and their articulation can’t be done otherwise. The class may take up very radical forms of organization like councils, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they see it as something they’re using for general social revolutionary aims. It’s pretty organic to their attempts to seize their own power, and it’s up to the autonomous thought of their thinking (the party) to articulate the more general task of communism.
The difference with my approach is that, like the councilists, we have to think about the state as a problem instead of as a solution. The state, even if in the form of a democratic republic with the basic unit of councils (organs of class self-governance), continues to remain as a form of relation because of self-organization’s underdevelopment.
The process of the withering away of the state is active and conscious, it’s the struggle of the class to educate itself to govern and to abolish itself. In abolishing itself, it also becomes the historical party. Put in more concrete terms, the workers abolish themselves by all becoming communists, and them all becoming communists is only possible with the birth of a communist civilization standing on its own ground instead of standing in struggle against the old society
What I don't like about Stardew Valley: - Do we really need another cozy small town USA story? - I'm playing as a generic petty bourgeois private property owner again, ugh
I want a game that uses Stardew Valley's insanely well crafted farming system and wonderful gameplay...
...but it's about a young party cadre trying to improve the harvests on a collectivized farming commune in China soon after the victory of the Communists over the reactionary Guomindang
Do you know why it suits a Zionist to call us Argentinians nazis? Because they will never recognize the importance that Jewish immigration had on the Argentine left. Communists, socialists, trotskyists, you name it; it's impossible not to find at least one person of Jewish origin in any party. And all of them openly support Palestine.
god 20th century men is really good its like some stuff id write myself. first american comic book about epic anti imperialism and how superheroes are american soft power, image always delivering
the story could have easily fallen into a vulgar anti sovietism and while it is pretty critical of the ussr i think it still manages to be nuanced in how it portrays soviet characters. i mean they still manage to come off as more human than the americans
it is like, anarcho-democratic in its politics (they shout out democratic confederalism specifically lol) but in a way where its grounded enough it doesnt come off as radlib preaching
Chess 2: Realm of Chaos
